Partial pericardial defect associated with ruptured aortic dissection of the ascending aorta: A rare feature presenting severe left hemothorax without cardiac tamponade

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1066-1068

  Nakajima, Masato ^a   Tsuchiya, Kouji ^a   Naito, Yuji ^a   Inoue, Hidenori ^a   Kobayashi, Kensuke ^a   Mizutani, Eiki ^a  

^a Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL PERICARDIAL DEFECT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1442324632     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01147-0     Document Type: Article

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